High-performance thin-film polarizing beam splitter operating at angles greater than the critical angle

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 16, 2000, Pages 2754-2771

  Li, Li ^a   Dobrowolski, D ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS;

POLARIZING BEAM SPLITTERS (PBS);

THIN FILMS;

EID: 0037812529     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.002754     Document Type: Article

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